This is an analysis of the poem Pensée Perdue that begins with:
Elle est si douce, la pensée,
Qu'il faut, pour en sentir l'attrait, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 101111010 11001 101110 01111 111111100 110010111 11101110 01101111 011110 1111101111 11111 1110110 110111110 11110111 1011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, je are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, a are repeated.
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